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Caesarea Maritima
Leslie J. Hoppe
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Caesarea Maritima Introduction Caesarea Maritima was a port city built by Herod the Great in 22 bce on the site of the Hellenistic period anch...
Canon, Biblical
Lee Martin McDonald
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Biblical Canon Introduction A biblical canon is the collection of books that comprise the sacred scriptures or Bibles of Jews and Christian...
Christology
David B. Capes
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Christology Introduction Christology refers to that branch of Christian theology concerned primarily with the person and work of Jesus. From t...
Chronicles, 1 and 2
Steven Shawn Tuell
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
1 and 2 Chronicles Introduction Although divided into two books in modern Bibles (a division dating to the Septuagint), Chronicles was orig...
Clothing
Alicia Batten
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Clothing Introduction Clothing refers to skins or woven garments that cover the body in some manner. Clothing is more specific than dress, whi...
Colossians
Jerry L. Sumney
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Colossians Introduction Colossians is often seen as a letter on the edge of the transition from Pauline to post-Pauline thought, being identifi...
Corinthians, 2
Thomas D. Stegman
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
2 Corinthians Introduction Paul’s second (canonical) letter to the Corinthians is one of the undisputed Pauline epistles (i.e., scholars ar...
Daniel
Carol Newsom
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Daniel Introduction The book of Daniel contains a collection of short narratives about Daniel and his three friends at the courts of pagan ki...
David
Victor H. Matthews
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
David Introduction Few persons mentioned in the biblical text have had as much influence on later traditions as has David. This complex bib...
Demons
Matthew Goff
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Demons Introduction The term “demon” is used to describe a wide variety of spiritual beings. The word derives from the Greek term daimōn which ...
Deuteronomistic History
Gary N. Knoppers, Jonathan S. Greer
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Deuteronomistic History Introduction The Deuteronomistic History (DH) is a modern theoretical construct holding that behind the present for...
Deuteronomy
Stephen L. Cook
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Deuteronomy Introduction Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It stands last in the section known as the books ...
Ecclesiastes/Qohelet
Timothy J. Sandoval
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Ecclesiastes/Qohelet Introduction As Carol Newsom remarks in her review of scholarship on Ecclesiastes (Qohelet), in discussions of the history...
Elijah
Eric Lee Welch, Gary N. Knoppers
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Elijah Introduction The accounts of the career of the prophet Elijah are found in 1 Kings 17–19, 21; and in 2 Kings 1 and 2. As presented in K...
Enoch
Pierluigi Piovanelli
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Enoch Introduction The various books of Enoch, beginning with the five or six booklets that constitute 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch to 3 (Hebrew) Enoch ...
Epistles, Catholic
Peter H. Davids
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Catholic Epistles Introduction Alongside the four Gospels, Acts, the Pauline letters (which often included Hebrews) and the Apocalypse, the...
Esther and Additions to Esther
Jill Middlemas
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Esther and Additions to Esther Introduction The biblical book of Esther is the story of a Jewish heroine (Esther, or Hadassah—the character’s H...
Ethics
Bruce C. Birch
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Ethics Introduction The modern discussion of biblical ethics began in the 1970s. There were, of course, important precursors to that developmen...
Exodus, Book of
Thomas B. Dozeman
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Book of Exodus Introduction Exodus is the second book in the Torah, or Pentateuch, of the Hebrew Bible. It follows the story of the Israelite...
Ezekiel
Jacqueline Lapsley
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Ezekiel Introduction The book of Ezekiel, with its forty-eight chapters, is the third of the so-called Major Prophets (after Isaiah and Jeremia...
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